763 So. 2d 276 - Gross v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The rule of Hamblen v. Owens has as its purpose the prevention of a subsequent wrongdoer from escaping responsibility where his conduct contributed to the creation of the situation in which the problems of apportionment arose.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 824 So. 2d 927 - Hart v. Stern

2. “the injured party should be able to recover for his or her injuries and the recovery should not be diminished because of a jury's inability to apportion injury between wrongdoers.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 824 So. 2d 927 - Hart v. Stern

3. “Joint and several liability is also appropriate when the tortious acts of multiple tortfeasors combine to produce a single, indivisible injury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 897 So. 2d 480 - Philip Morris Inc. v. French